Publication date:
The Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) organizes a Policy Forum on the role of the EU's home affairs agencies in the refugee crisis.
Read more
Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Keywords: EU-Turkey Agreement, European Asylum Support Office, Europol, Frontex, refugee crisis
Publication date:
This conference is organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Vilnius office, the EMN, the Ministry of Interior and the University of Vilnius.
Read more
Main theme: Migration, Borders & Visa
Keywords: border management, migratory route
Publication date:
The European Commission today's proposals are part of a major reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) as outlined in its Communication of 6 April 2016.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum
Keywords: Common European Asylum System, reform
Publication date:
The new directive regulates the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data in the EU. Its main objective: the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime.
Read more
Main theme: Migration
Keywords: security, passenger name record
Publication date:
The Commission has today proposed a Recommendation, to be decided upon by the Council, to prolong proportionate controls at certain internal Schengen borders for a maximum period of six months.
Read more
Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Keywords: border control, Greek Action Plan, Schengen borders code
Publication date:
The news release covers main trends on the registration of unaccompanied minors among asylum seekers in the EU in 2015.
Read more
Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Data & Statistics, Asylum
Keywords: unaccompanied minors
Publication date:
This EMN/UNHCR Ireland seminar invites participants to examine both the challenges and advantages associated with establishing a statelessness determination procedure.
Read more
Main theme: Statelessness
Keywords: statelessness
Publication date:
Experts from Austria and abroad will present methods and possibilities for international cooperation in order to determine individuals' identities.
Read more
Main theme: Migration
Keywords: age assessment, identity
Publication date:
The Odysseus Academic Network launches a Young Researcher Prize and a Best Publication Prize for publications on EU Immigration or Asylum Law.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: asylum law, immigration law, Odysseus Network
Publication date:
The Commission finds that good progress has been made to implement the EU-Turkey Statement.
Read more
Main theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Keywords: EU-Turkey Statement, resettlement
Publication date:
The News Release covers main trends on first and final instance decisions on applications for international protection and on Resettled persons, for the complete 2015 year, in the EU28+ EFTA region.
Read more
Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum decisions, resettlement
Publication date:
The 16th edition of the Odysseus Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy will take place from 4 to 15 July 2016 in Brussels.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: asylum law, migration law, Odysseus Network
Publication date:
Today the European Commission is launching the process for a reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and developing safe and well-managed pathways for legal migration to Europe.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: Common European Asylum System
Publication date:
This 3-day conference, as well as the exhibition, focus on the technologization of border controls, whether relating to persons, goods or capital.
Read more
Main theme: Borders & Visa
Keywords: border control, technologies
Publication date:
Today, key Belgian stakeholders in the fight against migrant smuggling discussed inter alia the use of social media in migrant smuggling at a round-table organized by the Belgian Contact Point of the EMN.
Read more
Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: migrant smuggling, social media
Publication date:
The EU and Turkey have found an agreement in order to end irregular migration from Turkey to the EU.
Read more
Main theme: International Protection, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Keywords: EU-Turkey Agreement, humanitarian admission, resettlement
Publication date:
Today, the Commission is reporting on the implementation of the temporary emergency relocation schemes and the European resettlement scheme. The report summarises the challenges and proposes recommendations to improve the implementation of these schemes.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum
Keywords: resettlement, relocation
Publication date:
The Council conclusions on migrant smuggling were adopted by the Council at its 3455th meeting held on 10-11 March 2016
Read more
Publication date:
The 13th IMISCOE annual conference focuses on the migration-development nexus, and a number of more general subjects including global diversity issues.
Read more
Main theme: Migration
Keywords: migration-development nexus
Publication date:
This Eurostat News Release covers main trends on first time asylum applicants and on pending asylum applicants for the complete 2015 year in the EU28+ EFTA region.
Read more
Main theme: International Protection, Data & Statistics
Keywords: asylum applications
Publication date:
Today the Commission proposes a new Emergency Assistance Instrument for faster crisis response within the EU.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: european assistance instrument, humanitarian crisis, refugee crisis
Publication date:
Today, the Commission confirmed that Greece is in the process of returning 308 irregular migrants to Turkey, as the EU steps up its efforts to ensure that those who do not qualify for international protection will be quickly and effectively returned to their countries of origin or transit.
Read more
Main theme: Irregular Migration
Keywords: Greece, irregular migrant, return, Turkey
Publication date:
Today 27 February, numerous platforms and citizens came together for a European March in more than hundred cities in 28 countries, including Brussels where 3000 persons expressed support for the initiative.
Read more
Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Keywords: internal border, reception, refugee crisis, safe route
Publication date:
Today, the Belgian government approved the plan for the distribution of asylum seekers over the different municipalities of the Kingdom. It will enter into force on 1 May 2016.
